Benign hibernoma mimicking a cardiac liposarcoma
Despite the low incidence of primary cardiac tumors, recently at our institution, we have experienced two very rare tumors in the span of just a few months. Hibernomas are rare tumors of brown adipose tissue origin that share the benign clinical features of a lipoma, but on imaging mimic the more aggressive sarcoma. Here we present two separate cases of otherwise healthy patients who were found incidentally to have these asymptomatic tumors.
Authors
- Manuel R. Rojo
- Menhel Kinno (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8693-192X)
- Zaid M. Abdelsattar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8025-0410)
- Kody Wyant
- Titilayo Oden Shobayo
- Jeffrey Schwartz
Institutions
- Loyola University Medical Center (US)
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs (US)
- Loyola University Chicago (US)
- Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Surgical Case Reports
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjae510
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac tumors and thrombi
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.40